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Supplicant vs Suppliant - What's the difference?

supplicant | suppliant |

Suppliant is a synonym of supplicant.

Suppliant is a related term of supplicant.



As adjectives the difference between supplicant and suppliant

is that supplicant is begging, pleading, supplicating while suppliant is entreating with humility.

As nouns the difference between supplicant and suppliant

is that supplicant is one who comes to humbly ask or petition while suppliant is one who pleads or requests earnestly.

As a verb suppliant is

present participle of lang=fr.

supplicant

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • begging, pleading, supplicating

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • one who comes to humbly ask or petition

    • Related terms

    * supplicate * applicant ----

    suppliant

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Entreating with humility.
  • * Milton
    • to bow and sue for grace with suppliant knee

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who pleads or requests earnestly.
  • * 1963': I touch your beard as a '''suppliant , embrace your knees, imploring you to have pity on my wretchedness. — Euripides, ''Medea , trans. Philip Vellacott (Penguin Classics, p. 39)

    • Synonyms

    * beseecher, petitioner, supplicant

    Related terms

    * suppliance * suppliantly * supplicant * supplicate * supplicatingly * supplication * supplicator * supplicatory (trans-bottom) ----